clipping advice

[fred90 2,591]

asking for help here. I have had beddywhippets for over 30 years and never bothered about clipping. this bitch just coming up to 5 years old has a really thick rough coat, great in winter but even the slightest heat really gets to her. what do you think about clipping, good or bad?... ps I don't give a monkeys trumpet about looks, it's purely got to benefit the dog. 

[Dinosaurs 1,884]

I get mine clipped as impossible to keep her coat free from matting up. Atb

[jigsaw 10,112]

I've a sheep shearer, electric,....my saluki dog X is a right wooly fecker,I've shaved him in the past and can't see any damage when the coat grows back,....he's due a shave again soon,and I won't hesitate in clipping him

[baker boy 9,142]

Get her clipped

[moonlighter 939]

I clip mine… some say you should hand strip but I prefer to clip 

[Moocher71 3,000]

My bedy grey suffers in the heat and she's not got a thick coat so one with thick coat is going to over heat quickly. 

I hand strip but I'd also use clippers if she had a coat like one you got  

[TOMO 21,467]

yep last ruff coated one I had ...I clippered her all the time...

[Countryman62 521]

atb 

Edited May 1 by Countryman62

[whitefeet4190 1,417]

I used to strip mine as I was worried about damaging his coat but on half way through the 3rd strip of the summmer I went an brought a pair of clippers, it’s alot quicker and doesn’t make much difference to how the coat grows back 

[torchey 990]

First and last rough un never again , had him shaved a few times gets way too hot

[fred90 2,591]

thanks for the replies everyone, looks like I will be clipping her. 

[fred90 2,591]

1 hour ago, torchey said:

First and last rough un never again , had him shaved a few times gets way too hot

like him, hows he bred? 

[socks 31,162]

15 hours ago, TOMO said:

yep last ruff coated one I had ...I clippered her all the time...

Then your missus decided that waxing was better

[torchey 990]

4 hours ago, fred90 said:

like him, hows he bred? 

His dad top left picture saluki grey/collie whip grey been a pleasure to own put him across another collie x and ended up with this twat lol

[skycat 6,071]

I've always followed this advice: if it moults, strip it, if it's  a non moulter, like some Beddy types, then clip it. If you clip a dog that should naturally moult, then the fur never grows the same again, grows woolly and weird and you have to keep clipping them forever.